Originally Posted by
Jile
If user counts were at 2005 levels and you could depend on a large linkshell for support on content instead of pugs that make you want to eat lead paint and pound your head on the wall, then yes, we could have ideal situations falling like rain drops on our perfect little day; however, this is 2016 and user counts are laughable at best and most of the time we are still forced to solo content because of necessity frankly.
There is no logical reason our job abilities shouldn't work, regardless of our position around a mob as long as we're in hitting range of the stupid mob. If I am in hitting range of the mob, my JA's should work 100% of the time, period. SE wants us 'in the fray' well quite frankly the only people expected to be eating conial damage are solid tanks and in reality if the BST is doing their job damage wise, their pet is going to tank a great deal of the time. Forcing the BST to move from behind a mob (where everyone else is, letting the tank-pet eat the conial damage/charm/etc) to in front of the stupid pet and run around and mash JA macros until it fires, then run back behind the mob.. It's functionally retarded.
To borrow from your analogy, it'd be like THF's sneak attack only functioning when your in front of the mob, forcing you to use it and then run behind the mob to hit and trick attack only works if your 21 yalms away from the mob, then you can run to your desired tank to sink the hate. Oh and mug only works when you're standing at a 90 degree angle from the mob your fighting but only on a full moon otherwise you have to use steal first while standing directly in front of the mob or your mug will be blocked. (God help us if they decide to be cruel and implement any of that lunacy lol!)
Some things are just plainly stupid. The way JA's mal-function for BST now, is one of them.